Željko Ivanek

Russell Jackson

Biography

Željko Ivanek is well known to audiences for his many film, stage and television roles including his Emmy Award-winning performance in the legal thriller “Damages,” and as a series regular in “The Event” and “The Mob Doctor.”

On television, he had recurring roles in the series “Banshee,” “Revolution,” “True Blood,” “Shark” and “24,” among others. He has guest-starred in “The Mentalist,” “Cold Case” and “CSI,” on the Network, “Lost,” “Bones,” “ER,” “Law & Order,” “Frasier,” “The West Wing,” “N.Y.P.D. Blue” and “The X-Files.” Additionally, he appeared in many television mini-series, including “The Reagans,” “Sally Hemings: An American Scandal,” on the Network, “John Adams,” “Dash and Lilly,” “The Rat Pack,” “Truman,” “Our Sons,” “Echoes in the Darkness” and “American Playhouse.”

On Broadway, Ivanek received Tony Award nominations for his roles in “The Caine Mutiny Court-martial,” “Two Shakespearean Actors” and “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” His additional Broadway credits include “The Pillowman,” “The Glass Menagerie” and “Loot.” Off-Broadway, he appeared in “A Map of the World,” “Cloud 9,” “The Cherry Orchard,” “It’s Only a Play,” “Hamlet,” “bash,” at the Almeida in London, and “Master Harold… and the Boys,” at the Yale Repertory, in which he originated the role of Hally.

Ivanek was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, in Ljubljana, the capital of what is now Slovenia. Currently, he resides in New York City. He is a graduate of Yale University and The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. His birthday is August 15.